SEE Camp – Teachers & Staff

Our Amazing SEE Camp Instructors in Summit, NJ:

SEE Camp employs a highly qualified staff with expertise in areas that range from education to recreation to cultural activities and the arts. Our staff of professionals has worked diligently in the off season in order to provide a top-rated program to our campers this summer. We look forward to working with your children!

Paul Smith, our Camp Director, is entering his 14th year at SEE Camp. He has previously served as Assistant Director at our Mountain Lakes location. Paul has his Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership and during the school year is a History teacher at Pompton Lakes High School.

Our Science department is directed by Joe Componile, a teacher at Morristown High School’s STEM Academy. Joe will join us for his seventh summer and is looking forward to sharing his expertise and enthusiasm with our campers this year!

Directing the Project Discovery program will be Bernadette Componile, who is returning to SEE Camp for her fourth summer. Bernadette is also a teacher at Morristown High School’s STEM Academy.

SEE Camp is pleased to welcome back Samantha Charwat as our Theater and Music Director. Samantha brings a wealth of experience in theatrics and dance to SEE. She also performed in many SEE Camp productions as a camper. We are lucky to have her back with SEE Camp as a staff member!

SEE Camp welcomes back Francesca Hare, our Art Director. Francesca is a Yale graduate with a specialty in painting. During the year, Francesca works as an art teacher in the Mendham public schools. As always, we look forward to her sharing her creativity with us!

We are happy to announce this year’s returning counselors, including teachers Nicole Papadopoulos and Matthew Tuorto. Both Nicole and Matthew are elementary school teachers and they look forward to ensuring that their campers have a great experience this summer!

MOUNTAIN LAKES, NJ

Summer 2019 Sessions

Session 1:

June 24 – July 05 2019

No Session July 4th. Deadline: Registration and final payment must be received no later than June 11.

Organized activities and classes: 9AM to 4PM

2 hours of science and Project Discovery activities

2 hours of sports, games, and swim

2 hours of theater and arts

Before and after care is available: 7:30-9:00AM and 4:00-5:45PM.

Includes Educational Field Trip To:

Liberty Science Center

SEE Camp takes pride in providing truly exciting, memorable, and educational field trips. We offer one field trip during each 2-week camping session, with no additional charge for admission or transportation. Chartered buses are fully air-conditioned.

Liberty Science Center is a must-see destination! Located in the beautiful Liberty State Park in Jersey City, NJ, LSC is a cutting-edge, 300,000-square-foot learning center visited by more than 750,000 guests each year and home to the Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium, the biggest planetarium in the Western Hemisphere. A few of our most popular exhibitions include: The Touch Tunnel – an 80-foot, crawl-through, pitch-black tunnel that helps you realize how much we rely on sight to move through the world, the Infinity Climber – a suspended climbing play space located 35 feet in the air, and Eat and Be Eaten – home to 100+ fascinating animal species including naked mole rats, the critically endangered cotton-top tamarin monkeys, and leaf-cutter ants.

Session 2:

July 08 – July 19 2019

Deadline: Registration and final payment must be received no later than June 11.

Organized activities and classes: 9AM to 4PM

2 hours of science and Project Discovery activities

2 hours of sports, games, and swim

2 hours of theater and arts

Before and after care is available: 7:30-9:00AM and 4:00-5:45PM.

Includes Educational Field Trip To:

Space Farms Zoo and Museum

SEE Camp takes pride in providing truly exciting, memorable, and educational field trips. We offer one field trip during each 2-week camping session, with no additional charge for admission or transportation. Chartered buses are fully air-conditioned.

Featuring more than 500 animals of 100 different species, Space Farms has the largest private collection of North American animals in their natural surroundings in the United States. The zoo also has many exotic species from around the world. Space Farms in internationally famous for its bear and lion bub breeding programs. A trip to the country zoo thrills children of all ages as they stroll the grassy grounds and are able to feed animals in special animal access areas. The Space Farm’s Museum contains more than 50,000 artifacts, including 50 antique cars, motorcycles, farm implements, early American tools, dolls, clocks, tractors, horse-drawn sleighs, and Native American artifacts.

NEW FOR 2019!

Bonus Week:

July 22 – July 26 2019

Deadline: Registration and final payment must be received no later than June 11.